Replication data for: Importing Skill-Biased Technology

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Project Citation:

Burstein, Ariel, Cravino, Javier, and Vogel, Jonathan. Replication data for: Importing Skill-Biased Technology. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2013. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E114270V1

Project Description

Summary: The production of capital equipment is concentrated among a small group of countries, and many countries import a large share of their equipment. If capital-skill complementarity is an important feature of technology, international trade may have important effects on the skill premium through its impact on equipment accumulation. In this paper we propose a tractable framework for evaluating this effect, provide simple analytic expressions linking observable changes in import shares by sector to changes in real wages of skilled and unskilled workers (and, therefore, the skill premium), and quantify the importance of this effect for a large set of countries. (JEL E22, F11, F16, J24, L64)

Scope of Project

JEL Classification:
      E22 Investment; Capital; Intangible Capital; Capacity
      F11 Neoclassical Models of Trade
      F16 Trade and Labor Market Interactions
      J24 Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
      L64 Other Machinery; Business Equipment; Armaments

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